Sausage smoking device



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I SAUSAGE SMOKING DEVICE Filed March 4, 1941 M44/AM vfioa/wsve.

INVENTOR.

Patented Jan. 19, 1943 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SAUSAGE SMOKINGDEVICE William Bogner, Elmhurst, N. Y. Application March 4, 1941, SerialNo. 381,625

3 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in racks forsupporting frankfurters, bolognas and similar products during thesmoking process thereof.

It is one object. of the present invention to provide a new and improvedbar for supporting sausages and similar articles during the process ofsmoking them.

A feature of the invention resides in a novel construction whereby thepoint of contact between the bar and the product may be varied from timeto time during the smoking process.

This feature of the invention is important since it results in even anduniform coloration of the finished product.

Another feature of the invention resides in a novel construction wherebythe supporting bar will not interfere with the passage of smoke to allportions of the product being processed.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one form of theinvention,

Figure l is a fragmentary view in side elevation illustrating a portionof a smoking tree or rack with a supporting bar in position thereon,

Figure 2 is a fragmentary top plan view,

Figure 3 is a detail sectional view on an enlarged scale takensubstantially on the line 3--3 of Figure 1,

Figure 4 is a detail sectional view on an enlarged scale takensubstantially on the line 4-4 of Figure 2, and

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the supporting bar, the bar beingpartly broken away.

The supporting bars are designated A and in use, a plurality of suchbars are supported in a rack or tree which is designated B.

The rack or tree B is formed of metal, preferably in the form of arectangular structure constructed of angle irons. It consists ofvertical corner members In, side bars H, and end bars 12, the side andend bars being horizontally disposed and connected to the corner membersand being suitably secured thereto to form a racklike structure.

The supporting bars A rest upon the side members H as best illustratedin Figures 1 and 2. Any suitable means is provided upon one of theseside members to prevent lateral movement of one end of the supportingbars. In the accompanying drawing, this means consists of an upstandingflange or the like l3 which is notched as at M to receive certainelements of the supporting bars in a manner to be hereinafter morespecifically described.

One of the supporting bars is shown in detail in Figure 5 and I willdescribe the construction of these bars by reference to said figure.

Referring to said Figure 5, each of the bars consists of two sidemembers l6 preferably of arcuate cross-sectional form. These sidemembers l6 are held in rigid spaced relation to each other by means ofspacing elements I1 secured in position between the bars by pins, rivetsor the like I8. The spacing elements l! are also spaced with respect toeach other and the pins or rivets 18 pass through them as bestillustrated in Figure 4.

Mounted between the side members [6, there is a bar 20 and said bar,near each of its ends, has an angularly disposed lug or extension 2|which is provided with an elongated slot 22. These slots 22 receive thepins or rivets l8 at their respective ends of the bar.

The normal position of the bar 2!) is one between the side members 16with its top edge in substantially the same plane as the top edges ofthe side members It. By reason of the angularly disposed slots 22, itwill be obvious that if the bars 2!] are reciprocated upon the pins orrivets :8 from their lowest position, they will be moved to an elevatedposition with respect to the side members IS in which position a bar 2is shown in Figure 4 of the-drawing.

Means is provided for reciprocating the bars 20 of the supporting bars Aand this means is so constructed as to operate simultaneously, the bars20 of a series of supporting bars A.

Extending along the side members I! of the rack or tree there is a shaft25. This shaft 25 may be supported in bearing blocks 26 secured to theunder face of the lower flange 21 of the side bars I I as illustrated inFigure 3. The shaft 25 has at one end, a right angular extension 28which lies in the path of a crank extension 29 of a shaft 3!! which isprovided with an operating knob or handle 3| by which it may be rotatedin its bearing 32 which in turn is carried by a corner member I!) of therack or tree. Upon the right angular extension 28 there is mounted aweight 33 which tends normally to rock the shaft 25 in thecounter-clockwise direction as in dicated by the arrow C in Figure 1.

Mounted upon the shaft 25 in properly spaced relation to each other,there is a plurality of hub members 36, each of which is rigidly securedto the shaft. Each of these hub members 36 carries two upstanding spacedfingers 31 which straddle the bars 28 of the supporting bars A, it beingunderstood that there will be one of these hub members and it associatedfingers for each of the supporting bars A. The bars 29 are each providedwith a cross pin 38 which is adapted for engagement by the upstandingfingers 3'! of its respective hub member 36 and these pins together withthe fingers 31 provide the means by which the bars 20 of a plurality ofsupporting bars A may be simultaneously reciprocated to their elevatedposition with respect to the side members of their respective bars.

The products such as sausages, bolognas or the like are looped upon thesupporting bars A in the usual manner before they are positioned in therack or tree. After the supporting bars have been loaded, they areplaced in the rack or tree with one end of the side members I5 thereofoccupying positions in the notches l4 heretofore mentioned in the sidebars II at one side" of the rack or tree.

twoiupstanding fingers 3'! of one of the hub members 36.

It will be understood that when the supporting bar A are loaded, theirbars 29 will occupy a position in which their upper edges are in thesame plane or substantially flush with the upper edges [6 of the sidemembers of their respective supporting bars, in which position the bars2%) are illustrated in broken lines in Figure 4.

After the rack or tree has been loaded, it is moved into the smokingchamber or oven and the product carried thereby is subjected to thesmoking operation. After the smoking operation has progressed, the rackor tree is removed and the shafts are rotated by grasping their operating knob or handle and turning the same in a clockwise direction.Operations of the shafts 25 in the clockwise direction reciprocates thebars 20 of the supporting bars A to the right as for example in'Figure4, and by reason of the angularly disposed slots 22, the bars will bemoved to the elevated position in which one bar is shown in Figure 4.When the bars 20 are in their elevated position, the upstanding fingers3'! of the hub member pass slightly beyond the arrow C in Figure 1 underthe influence of the weight 33 carried by said right angular extension28. Movement of the shaft 25 in the counter- "clockwise direction movesthe fingers 37 in a The opposite end of each supporting bar is sopositioned that its corresponding end of the bar 20 will lie between thethe bars 20 of the supporting bars are elevated the product beingprocessed is likewise elevated and its point of contact with the sidemembers I6 is different than is the case when the bars 20 are in theirlowered position.

In the accompanying drawing the invention has been described in itspreferred form, but it is to be understood that it'may be practiced insuch other forms as rightfully fall within the scope of the appendedclaims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. A device for smoking sausages in combina-- tion, a supporting rack orframe and a plurality of sausage supporting bars removably carriedthereby, each of said sausage supporting bars comprising a pair ofspaced side members, means for securing said side members rigidlytogether in spaced relation, and an intermediate member slidably mountedbetween the spaced side members, means carried by the supporting rack orframe for moving simultaneously the sliding member of each of saidsausage supporting bars,

and means for elevating the intermediate members of said sausagesupporting bars to a plane above that of the side members thereof, assliding movement is imparted in one direction to the sliding members ofthe bars.

2.'A device of the character described comprising in combination, asupporting frame, a plurality of supporting bars carried by said frame,each of said supporting bars comprising two member rigidly securedtogether in spaced relation, an elevating bar slidably mounted bee tweenthe members of each of the supporting bars, angularly disposed slottedlegs depending from each of said elevating bars, cross pins bridging thespaces between the members of the supporting bars and passing throughthe slots of the depending legs of. the elevating bars whereby theelevating bars will move to and from position between the two members ofeach of the supporting bars upon longitudinal reciprocating movement ofthe elevating bars, and

means for simultaneously reciprocating said elevating bars.

3. A device of the character described comprising in combination, asupporting frame, a plurality of supporting bars carried by said frame,each of said supporting bars comprising two members rigidly securedtogether in spaced relation,an

- elevating bar slidably mounted between the 'members of each of thesupporting bars, angularly disposed slotted legs depending from each ofsaid elevating bars, cros pins bridging the spaces between the membersofthe supporting bars and passing through the slots of the dependinglegs of the elevating bars whereby the elevating bars counter-clockwisedirection as indicated by the arrow E in Figure 4 and permits the bars20 of the supporting bars A to move by gravity or a under the influenceof the weight of the product carried thereby to a position in whichtheir upper edges are substantially flush with the upper edges of theside bars.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that the present inventionprovides a new and improved members It of their respective bar forsupporting sausages, bolognas or the like during the smoking process,and that, by reason of its construction, it permit of varying the pointof contact of the product being processed with respect to the supportingbar, since when will move to' and from position between the two membersof the supporting bars upon longitudinal reciprocating movement of theelevating bars, and means for simultaneously reciprocating saidelevating bars, said means including a rocking shaft mounted in thesupporting frame at a point beneath the supporting bars and at rightangles thereto, means carried by said shaft for operative engagementwith each of said elevating bars to reciprocate the same between the twomembers I of each of the supporting bars, and means carried by thesupporting frame for rocking said shaft.

WILLIAM BOGNERv

